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Is Tableau The Next Google?

Posted by timothy on from the tabuleau-rasa dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "At least, the founders of Tableau Software, a small company established in 2003 and based in Seattle, come from Stanford University, where they worked down the hall with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in 1997. In 'Tableau making name for itself,' the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes that Tableau intends to make structured databases easy to use the way Google did with unstructured data. So the company is turning databases into easy-to-generate graphics. Tableau doesn't say who are its customers, but claims that it has more than 100 installations and that it's already profitable. This graphical data mining tool runs on desktops and costs $1,000 per user for a standard edition and $1,600 per user for a professional version. Will this company be successful and become another Google? Read more and decide after looking at an example of database drilling."

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  1. First! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First!

  2. Grammer is a lost art by steveo777 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hell yeah, it's off topic, but I wanna burn some Karma...
    I'm not sure I have read anything with such poor grammer and punctuation since before the sixth grade. I'm not saying I'm perfect. What I am saying is that it borders on unreadable.
    I know I'll get a few posts saying, "I understood it just fine," or, "Maybe it's just the way the guy talks." Well, the thing is that if you are trying to read a newspaper you will find that the reporters and editors usually stick to a sixth grade reading level.
    I give this guy a second grade reading level, and a ninth grade vocabulary.

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  3. Re:Stock prices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    seriously can we stop with all this googlemania? im so sick of hearing about fucking google.com

    lol i typed the period at the end of the word google and the com just naturaly flowed out of my hands. thats crazy

  4. this is ridiculous by Janek+Kozicki · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how many times had this guy, roland piquebiwelly, subimtted this story to get it posted? Ten, or maybe twenty?

    I'm a honest /.'er here and I submit every story only once. Often later I see my version rejected and similar story posted by someone else.

    STOP ASTROTURFING NOW!

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  5. Re:No by conteXXt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man I so want to reply to this, just to be at the top...

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  6. Re:Great for our company by Xerithane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Get me an iPod, and I'll give you a gmail invite.

    http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=7580 251

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